Excessive quoting (was: Re: [ILUG] [OT] Handspring Visor Deluxe)

Lars Hecking lhecking at nmrc.ie
Tue Sep 19 12:37:59 IST 2000


Smith, Alan writes:
> That's a great price for the Visor. To buy off the Handspring website costs
> £222 ex vat and ex delivery. Now - who wants to lend me the money to buy one
> ;-)
 
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 John McDonnell posted earlier:

| it's also usually better to not include half a ton of useless included 
| crap when sending mails to the list. Aim for legibility especially if
| looking for help. I know personally that when faced with pages of includes
| I just ignore the message and I know there are others here that feel
| similarly. *Please* inlcude only what's necessary from the previous post.
| Just a little something to make all our lives easier.

 'nuff said.





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